Meaning of weak-minded | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having or exhibiting a mind that lacks steadfastness, resoluteness or especially judgment; not strong-minded.
2. Mentally or intellectually deficient; feeble-minded; half-witted.
   historical, offensive

Examples

“Jabba the Hutt: I told you not to admit him. / Luke Skywalker: I must be allowed to speak. / Bib Fortuna: He must be allowed to speak. / Jabba the Hutt: You weak-minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind trick! / Luke Skywalker: You will bring Captain Solo and the wookie to me. / Jabba the Hutt: Your mind powers will not work on me, boy.”

“Stupid, she told herself. Vain, weak-minded, and stupid.”

“I have lost count of how many times I have heard that Christianity is a crutch for weak-minded people, who can't make it in life without faith.”

“Plato sympathizes with the desire to influence weak-minded people. However, rather than directly controlling the minds of such people by the power of his own will, he uses the power of his thought to construct a myth designed to control the beliefs of the weak-minded by appealing to their imagination.”

“Biden may be old, but he is far from the debilitated, weak-minded caricature drawn of him by right-wing media.”

“But police said he was arrogant and manipulative, while Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah was weak-minded and gullible.”

“Their mother is insane ; father somewhat weak-minded.”

“[…] they have been looked upon as unstable and the result has been weak-minded progeny.”

“Altogether thirty-four out of 146 'criminal lunatics' admitted to the asylum between 1852 and 1890 were described as weak-minded or imbecile by the asylum staff.”

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